The WHO is a United Nations agency that aims to expand universal health coverage, coordinates responses to health emergencies such as pandemics, and has a broad focus on healthy lives. It does not have the power to enforce health policy, but influences policy worldwide, especially in low-income countries.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would begin the process of removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Here's why.

The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health body will impede efforts to control the global spread of diseases and could pu

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

Conservatives are pushing Trump to distance himself from global health authorities, which experts believe could undermine future pandemic responses.

WHO issues statement citing work the United States and WHO have done together and expressing hope for maintaining partnership

On his first day back in the White House, Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating the process for the United States to leave the World Health Organization (WHO). This marks Donald Trump’s second attempt to withdraw from the WHO,